ISBN: 9780190064679 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2020
Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion shapes how they enter the world and how they leave it...
ISBN: 9780199330966 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 120 Rok wydania: 2016
In this Very Short Introduction, leading historian of science Owen Gingerich offers a fascinating portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who developed the concept of a heliocentric universe...
ISBN: 9780190915155 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2023
ISBN: 9780195373851 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2013
This concise volume fills a long-standing need for a sophisticated, brief primer on American national politics. A major theme of the book is the interplay between constitutional and...
ISBN: 9780190645021 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2020
The Maya forged the greatest society in the history of the ancient Americas, and one of the great societies in human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular...
ISBN: 9780190225063 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2015
Between 1760 and 1800, the people of the United States created a new nation, based on the idea that all people have the right to govern themselves. This Very Short Introduction recreates the...
ISBN: 9780195342635 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2009
Discusses the origins and early pioneers of biblical archaeology as a discipline, and the major controversies that prompted many explorers to go in search of sites that would prove the Bible.
ISBN: 9780190454791 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2020
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures...
ISBN: 9780199340057 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2014
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's...
ISBN: 9780190900052 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2019
Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the...
ISBN: 9780195379389 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2012
This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in...
ISBN: 9780195305050 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2008
A compact and informative introduction to the Old Testament, written aby a leading authority on the Bible. It provides an overview of one of the pillars of Western religion and culture, whose...
ISBN: 9780199944521 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 2018
North American Indigenous literature reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales. Sean Teuton tells its story, from when...
ISBN: 9780195327052 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 144 Rok wydania: 2007
In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the...
ISBN: 9780190685072 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 144 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780190944421 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2023
ISBN: 9780199760275 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2013
Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More...
ISBN: 9780195398915 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2014
A lucid and concise introduction to the philosophical tenets of Confucianism
ISBN: 9780190079819 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 144 Rok wydania: 2020
For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short...
ISBN: 9780199858934 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2014
Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific...